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Jesse Bertron

Jesse Bertron is a plumber’s apprentice living in Austin, Texas. He has an MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt University. He is codirector of Poetry at Round Top, an annual festival in rural Texas.

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Poetry
So I was surprised,
my mother telling me tonight
that having dreaded the loss
of her memory for so long,
the loss itself had come
as a kind of peace.

Dust

Jesse Bertron

       

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